noun
- a type of flower cluster in which individual flowers are attached by short stalks along a central stem
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The lilac’s fragrant flowers are arranged in a dense raceme.
- Grape hyacinths produce their small blue flowers in a compact raceme.
- The botanist identified the plant by examining its distinctive raceme structure.
- Each flower in the raceme blooms from bottom to top in sequence.
- The foxglove’s tall raceme can contain dozens of tubular flowers.
- Snapdragons display their colorful blooms in an elongated raceme.